June is peak mango season in this part of the world. There were mangoes being sold everywhere. Huge truckloads being taken in from the villages to the market towns, here in Tekondogo in southern Burkina Faso. Being in season, the mangos were so cheap. You could get five or more mangoes for the equivalent ofContinue reading “fruits in season (June 2015)”
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field visits (June 2015)
After the workshop was done, most of the team went back to Ouagadougou or Accra. We were a couple, however, who wanted to see more. Get a feel for the northern Ghanaian and southern Burkinabe landscape. So we took the car, a driver and went on a road trip. This project is centered on dams,Continue reading “field visits (June 2015)”
my colleagues (June 2015)
We were sitting out by the empty hotel pool in the warm evening, planning the last day of the workshop, when I realized: The number of nationalities here is incredible. There had been so much going on since I arrived, with the meetings and the drive to Ghana and the workshop, that I hadn’t hadContinue reading “my colleagues (June 2015)”
the workshop (June 2015)
The main reason for this visit to Burkina Faso and Ghana was not to plan the project with the different teams, but for one of the teams to hold a workshop in Zebilla, a village close to Bolgatanga in northern Ghana. The rest of us tagged along, out of curiosity about the workshop and toContinue reading “the workshop (June 2015)”
diving into the deep end of development research (June 2015)
I graduated on June 4th. I did not get any time to enjoy the feeling of having a master’s of sustainability science, though. My contract as a research assistant started the same day I graduated, and three days later, I left Sweden for project meeting/workshop/study site scoping trip to Burkina Faso and Ghana. Charles deContinue reading “diving into the deep end of development research (June 2015)”
re-inventing the blog
This blog, with the title Geographies of belonging, was started in March 2012, just before I went on my half-year journey along the North American west coast. And even after I came back from there, the theme of this blog has to some extent kept on loosely revolving around finding my place in the world,Continue reading “re-inventing the blog”
the first week of June, when everything happened at once
I finished my thesis. But you know that already. Turned it in on June 1st. Had beers with Roweena, Phil, Ashley, Dries and Josh (the last three only there for sympathy reasons, they are still working on their theses). A wet night that ended with us drinking cloudberry liquor and watching Buffy the Vampire SlayerContinue reading “the first week of June, when everything happened at once”
the last month of thesis writing (May 2015)
The month of May is a blur. I don’t remember anymore what I did, except long days of trying to write and making figures, in the computer lab in the Geoscience building together with Roweena and Jessica (among others), and alone at home. I can’t remember if I did anything else, even properly go outsideContinue reading “the last month of thesis writing (May 2015)”
links across time (April 2015)
Kirke took this picture of Hanna and me in front of the Savior on the Spilled Blood Church in Saint Petersburg – but it wasn’t until I got home and started going through the travel photos that I realized that it’s almost an identical staging of a photo that my dad took of Hanna and meContinue reading “links across time (April 2015)”
reminders from the past (April 2015)
While in Saint Petersburg, Mr. P made friends with a family of babushka’s. It feels like such a remote thing in time, something that happened in another stage of life, our visit to Saint Petersburg – but I found this picture among the edited-but-not-uploaded photos and it was such a pretty one. They really match,Continue reading “reminders from the past (April 2015)”
Katja Malmborg 